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You can also find a marine species by browsing through the WoRMS taxonomy on the right hand side.

The taxonomy here displays all parent and child nodes of the taxonomy that are tagged as accepted or synonymised. Only species tagged as marine are shown (so you may find some parent nodes with no species within them).

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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
            Podoplea
              Cyclopoida
              Harpacticoida
              Poecilostomatoida
                Anomoclausiidae
                Antheacheridae
                Anthessiidae
                Bomolochidae
                Catiniidae
                Chondracanthidae
                Clausidiidae
                Clausiidae
                Corycaeidae
                Entobiidae
                Ergasilidae
                Eunicicolidae
                Gastrodelphyidae
                Herpyllobiidae
                Intramolgidae
                Lamippidae
                Lichomolgidae
                Lubbockiidae
                Macrochironidae
                Mesoglicolidae
                Myicolidae
                Mytilicolidae
                Nereicolidae
                Octopicolidae
                Oncaeidae
                Pharodidae
                Philichthyidae
                Phyllodicolidae
                Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                Pseudanthessiidae
                Rhynchomolgidae
                Sabelliphilidae
                Saccopsidae
                Sapphirinidae
                  Copilia
                  Sapphirina
                      Sapphirina angusta
                      Sapphirina auronitens
                      Sapphirina bicuspidata
                      Sapphirina darwini
                      Sapphirina gastrica
                      Sapphirina gemma
                        Sapphirina gemma ovantolanceolata
                      Sapphirina granulosa
                      Sapphirina intestinata
                      Sapphirina iris
                      Sapphirina lactens
                      Sapphirina maculosa
                      Sapphirina metallina
                      Sapphirina nigromaculata
                      Sapphirina opalina
                      Sapphirina ovatolanceolata
                      Sapphirina pyrosomatis
                      Sapphirina sali
                      Sapphirina scarlata
                      Sapphirina sinuicauda
                      Sapphirina stellata
                      Sapphirina vorax
                      Sapphirina aureofurca
                      Sapphirina lomae
                      Sapphirina longifurca
                      Sapphirina pseudolactens
                      Sapphirina reticulata
                      Sapphirina serrata
                      Sapphirina bella
                      Sapphirina clausii
                      Sapphirina coruscans
                      Sapphirina cylindrica
                      Sapphirina danae
                      Sapphirina darwinii
                      Sapphirina detonsa
                      Sapphirina edwardsii
                      Sapphirina elegans
                      Sapphirina fulgens
                      Sapphirina gegenbauri
                      Sapphirina gibba
                      Sapphirina inaequalis
                      Sapphirina indicator
                      Sapphirina indigotica
                      Sapphirina nitens
                      Sapphirina obesa
                      Sapphirina obtusa
                      Sapphirina opaca
                      Sapphirina orientalis
                      Sapphirina ovalis
                      Sapphirina ovata
                      Sapphirina pachygaster
                      Sapphirina parva
                      Sapphirina salpae
                      Sapphirina scalaris
                      Sapphirina splendens
                      Sapphirina stylifera
                      Sapphirina tenella
                      Sapphirina thomsoni
                      Sapphirina uncinata
                      Sapphirina versicolor
                      Sapphirina ovatolanceolata-gemma
                      Sapphirina opalina-darwini
                  Vettoria
                  Corina
                  Corissa
                  Edwardsia
                  Hyalophyllum
                  Lanowia
                  Pyromma
                  Sapphiridina
                  Terebellicola
                Serpulidicolidae
                Spiophanicolidae
                Synapticolidae
                Synaptiphilidae
                Taeniacanthidae
                Ventriculinidae
                Xenocoelomidae
                Tuccidae
                Corallovexiidae
                Echiurophilidae
                Euniciolidae
                Paralubbockiidae
                Tegobomolochidae
                Umazuracolidae
                Xenocoelomatidae
                Lernaeosoleidae
                Melinnacheridae
                Pionodesmotidae
                Bradophilidae
                Abrsiidae
                Makrostrotidae
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
              Misophrioida
              Mormonilloida
          Thaumatopsylloida
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera